Sensei Scribbles

Sketches, doodles, teasers, and a whole lot of stuff I just like.

[bethany-sensei]

Hey tumblr!

Do you want to read some queer fantasy literary fiction?

BALANCES

When renegade Demonslayer Akieryon crashes to earth in front of a human, he doesn’t know what to expect. Getting taken home into the heart of not-a-sorcerer Tempest’s life only boggles his preconceptions more. For the first time in his long life, Akieryon has the freedom to do whatever he wants. He throws himself into political intrigue and petty concerns with equal abandon. Family is what you make of it, and Akieryon wants as much as he can get. He just won’t worry too much about that thing his new friend(?) Tempest isn’t telling him.

Angels! (One angel.) Demons! (A few.) An aro time mage! An unintentional allegory for having grown up queer in a conservative household!

Who is this book for?

People who like books with low-to-medium stakes and a moderate pace

People who enjoy Frankenstein (book), Twelfth Night, and The Hands of the Emperor

People who want more aspec characters in stories that aren’t about being aspec

People who like unusual angels

Me, honestly

AVAILABLE NOW!

ebook for purchase or on Kobo Plus

paperback via Bookshop dot org

Or! Request it from your local library! (May not be possible in all regions, alas, but it’s worth trying: I deliberately chose to publish with Kobo and Ingram Spark so libraries could get it.)

Go forth! Read about my weird queer characters!

[madphantom]

You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.

[bethany-sensei]

Hey tumblr!

Do you want to read some queer fantasy literary fiction?

BALANCES

When renegade Demonslayer Akieryon crashes to earth in front of a human, he doesn’t know what to expect. Getting taken home into the heart of not-a-sorcerer Tempest’s life only boggles his preconceptions more. For the first time in his long life, Akieryon has the freedom to do whatever he wants. He throws himself into political intrigue and petty concerns with equal abandon. Family is what you make of it, and Akieryon wants as much as he can get. He just won’t worry too much about that thing his new friend(?) Tempest isn’t telling him.

Angels! (One angel.) Demons! (A few.) An aro time mage! An unintentional allegory for having grown up queer in a conservative household!

Who is this book for?

People who like books with low-to-medium stakes and a moderate pace

People who enjoy Frankenstein (book), Twelfth Night, and The Hands of the Emperor

People who want more aspec characters in stories that aren’t about being aspec

People who like unusual angels

Me, honestly

AVAILABLE NOW!

ebook for purchase or on Kobo Plus

paperback via Bookshop dot org

Or! Request it from your local library! (May not be possible in all regions, alas, but it’s worth trying: I deliberately chose to publish with Kobo and Ingram Spark so libraries could get it.)

Go forth! Read about my weird queer characters!

[sophsun1]

The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

[sockth]

Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay

[apolladay]

think of your most hated sensory experience. which sense is it bothering the most?

sight

hearing

smell

touch

taste

one of the less common ones (ex. balance, interoception, etc)

I have no sensory dislikes

being bald (results)

Remaining time: 5 days 13 hours

[chikuto]

the heatwave has killed me and i have died badly but here's a page

[aprilbrowines]

THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!

KOSA IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE HOUSE!

It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship!

MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK

202-224-3121 i HIGHLY encourage everyone to read the bills in the KIDS Act, because you will be doing more than 95% of people who read and introduce these bills

[thisrobothasnosoul]

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

[nothorses]

Crucially, this is being led by a lot of Democrats. This is not just Republicans sneaking bullshit in while they have the power to simply not listen to anyone; your democratic representatives will continue to co-sponsor and speak in support of this unless they know you, their voters, do not want them to.

[amongthespaghetti]

okay i know we normally do this with more pop-focused festivals but i wanna see how many metalheads are on this site: how many groups do you recognize?

0

1-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

51-50

51-60

61-70

71-80

81-90

91-100

100+

Remaining time: 2 days 7 hours

(i recognized 64)

[books-bread-and-brigandage]

Zero, this does not surprise me as my favourite metal band is the k/pg iridium pulse.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

chatgpt didn’t invent the emdash and they can’t fucking have it. it’s mine.

[croaksac]

HUGE developments in the big silly baby wearing fluffy pajamas fandom:

Oregon Zoo 05/30/26: This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

[rosslynpaladin]

When I was a child there were

22

of these magnificent ancient creatures still alive on this world. and I was aware of this at that age because nearly half of them were in a very secretive building on a hilltop near my house, in a last ditch effort by conservation scientists to breed and raise babies.

fifteen. Just born. this season. I cry tears of joy.

You did it. You're doing it. Keep fighting for a future, everybody- it's working.

[keplercryptids]

hey, it's okay if the only thing you did for pride was exist. i'm glad & grateful you are in the world. your survival is a celebration.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[trixterdark]

If you see this post you have to write a sentence

[bethany-sensei]

Hey tumblr!

Do you want to read some queer fantasy literary fiction?

BALANCES

When renegade Demonslayer Akieryon crashes to earth in front of a human, he doesn’t know what to expect. Getting taken home into the heart of not-a-sorcerer Tempest’s life only boggles his preconceptions more. For the first time in his long life, Akieryon has the freedom to do whatever he wants. He throws himself into political intrigue and petty concerns with equal abandon. Family is what you make of it, and Akieryon wants as much as he can get. He just won’t worry too much about that thing his new friend(?) Tempest isn’t telling him.

Angels! (One angel.) Demons! (A few.) An aro time mage! An unintentional allegory for having grown up queer in a conservative household!

Who is this book for?

People who like books with low-to-medium stakes and a moderate pace

People who enjoy Frankenstein (book), Twelfth Night, and The Hands of the Emperor

People who want more aspec characters in stories that aren’t about being aspec

People who like unusual angels

Me, honestly

AVAILABLE NOW!

ebook for purchase or on Kobo Plus

paperback via Bookshop dot org

Or! Request it from your local library! (May not be possible in all regions, alas, but it’s worth trying: I deliberately chose to publish with Kobo and Ingram Spark so libraries could get it.)

Go forth! Read about my weird queer characters!

[bethany-sensei]

Hey tumblr!

Do you want to read some queer fantasy literary fiction?

BALANCES

When renegade Demonslayer Akieryon crashes to earth in front of a human, he doesn’t know what to expect. Getting taken home into the heart of not-a-sorcerer Tempest’s life only boggles his preconceptions more. For the first time in his long life, Akieryon has the freedom to do whatever he wants. He throws himself into political intrigue and petty concerns with equal abandon. Family is what you make of it, and Akieryon wants as much as he can get. He just won’t worry too much about that thing his new friend(?) Tempest isn’t telling him.

Angels! (One angel.) Demons! (A few.) An aro time mage! An unintentional allegory for having grown up queer in a conservative household!

Who is this book for?

People who like books with low-to-medium stakes and a moderate pace

People who enjoy Frankenstein (book), Twelfth Night, and The Hands of the Emperor

People who want more aspec characters in stories that aren’t about being aspec

People who like unusual angels

Me, honestly

AVAILABLE NOW!

ebook for purchase or on Kobo Plus

paperback via Bookshop dot org

Or! Request it from your local library! (May not be possible in all regions, alas, but it’s worth trying: I deliberately chose to publish with Kobo and Ingram Spark so libraries could get it.)

Go forth! Read about my weird queer characters!

[abyssalaquarist00]

pick up that non-fiction book

[abyssalaquarist00]

not all of us can live in fantasy 100% the time like i see some people on here do and it's refreshing to learn something new. its been philosophy, essays, and history for me and i feel much more at home on planet Earth for it knowing that people have been struggling and wishing similarly for millenia.

its not that fiction doesnt have its place, its important and healthy to exercise the imagination, but non-fiction can do so much to boost and supplement that. if not for yourself, for your art or for the people you're around

[abyssalaquarist00]

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

[abyssalaquarist00]

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

[creatingblackcharacters]

Stamp of approval

[goth-queen]